Japan's plan of coastal whaling rejected by international commission
23:16, 7 July 2012
PANAMA CITY. July 7. KAZINFORM The International Whaling Commission on Friday rejected a call from Japan for permission to resume hunting minke whales near its coastline, on the last day of the commission's annual conference.
Japan sought a unanimous decision to allow it to catch minke whales in coastal areas, saying as in previous years that it is like indigenous whaling allowed in Alaska, but several member countries opposed the plan.
Japanese whalers had caught minke whales in coastal areas until the commission decided in 1982 on a moratorium on the commercial hunting of the whale, Kyodo reports.
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